A route to market for the farms we know
Beyond our own land we work with around a hundred small independent farmers, from the high moor down to the north Cornish coast. We give them a home for the animals the supermarkets turn away.
The farms supermarkets reject
Supermarkets want animals of a uniform shape and size, lean and predictable. Native breeds are none of those things. They are different sizes, they take longer, and they carry more fat.
To the multiples that is a problem. To us it is the whole point. We buy exactly the animals they will not, and we pay a fair price for them.
We are a true route to market for this farming community. Their livelihood, our counter.
Two holdings, moor and river
The family farms two holdings of its own. One sits on Bodmin Moor, where the cattle graze the rough margins. The other lies by the river Tamar, on the softer valley grassland.
Between them they set the standard we ask of everyone we buy from: native breeds, slow grown, reared with the weather rather than against it.
Where it comes from
Every animal is traceable to a farm and a family. Here is the country it comes from.
Bodmin Moor
High, rough grazing where hardy native breeds thrive on ground that would not suit commercial cattle.
The Tamar Valley
The long grasslands running between the moors. Softer keep for finishing native breeds well.
The north coast
Coastal farms whose small, independent producers form the wider hundred we buy from.
Native breeds, built for the moor.
The animals, the breeds and why the fat matters. See how sourcing shapes everything we sell.